Suburban Spaces, Suburban Cultures
Participants in the recent international and interdisciplinary project, ‘Cultures of the Suburbs International Research Network’, examine the significance of culture in shaping and reflecting the suburban built environment. Their articles consider suburbs from Australia to Norway, Ireland to Canada, and England to Lebanon, tracing historical precedents, present day experience and anticipating the direction and effects of future policy.
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Summary
Participants in the recent international and interdisciplinary project, ‘Cultures of the Suburbs International Research Network’, examine the significance of culture in shaping and reflecting the suburban built environment. Their articles consider suburbs from Australia to Norway, Ireland to Canada, and England to Lebanon, tracing historical precedents, present day experience and anticipating the direction and effects of future policy.
Contents
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Suburban Spaces, Suburban Cultures
Paul Burton and Jo Gill -
Spatial Subversion in Eighteenth-Century Dublin: The Suburban Design Practices of the Fitzwilliam Estate
Finola O’Kane -
Building the Sacred in Suburbia: Improvisation, Reinvention and Innovation
Claire Dwyer, David Gilbert and Nazneen Ahmed -
Legal Chaos: Sprawl in the Lebanese Suburb
Maroun G. Kassab -
The Australian Good Life: The Fraying of a Suburban Template
Paul Burton -
Towards a Morphology of Public Space in Suburban Dublin
Mary P. Corcoran and Michael K. Hayes -
The Construction of a Suburb: Ideology, Planning and Everyday Life in Skjettenbyen
Per Gunnar Røe -
Building Sand Castles in Dutch Suburbia: From New-frontier Pioneering to Diversifying Aspirations
Yannis Tzaninis -
Living on the Edge: Building a Sub/Urban Region
Allan Cochrane, Bob Colenutt and Martin Field -
Towers in the Park, Bungalows in the Garden: Peripheral Densities, Metropolitan Scales and the Political Cultures of Post-Suburbia
Roger Keil - Publication Reviews
Cover images: (front) Solar settlement in Vauban, Freiberg. (Photo: CC Claire7373); (back) Allotments in the Affoltern area of Zurich (Photo: Roland zh)
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